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August 24, 2013

Heavy Metal Television hiring music video DJs in Phoenix

As the brains behind “The Greatest Music Ever Created and How it Ruined Our Lives,” an Internet music show produced in Mesa, Eric Braverman had interviewed such long-haired luminaries as Ted Nugent, Metallica, Slayer and Slipknot.

But he thought he could do more for metal, Braverman says, if he had his own MTV-style network. And he wanted it online.

“I didn’t understand why Iron Maiden wasn’t on Jay Leno all the time,” Braverman says with a laugh. “So I was like, ‘Can I just make my own heavy-metal television channel that works like an actual TV channel?’ And my technical people were like, ‘Yeah, you can.’ ”

He found financial backing in Sharon Chambers of Down to Earth, a music-management company in Los Angeles. And with that funding, Heavy Metal Television made its Internet debut Oct. 30 — or Devil’s Night.